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A New Soap Takes Four Daytime Emmys Before Its Trophy Shelf Settles In
· New York time
CBS soap Beyond the Gates won four Daytime Emmys at the 53rd annual ceremony, taking honors in its first year of eligibility. Its wins included the Outstanding Lead Actor and Emerging Actress categories, Deadline reported. The ceremony streamed on YouTube, giving a celebration of daytime television an online home. Created by Michele Val Jean, the newcomer entered an awards field associated with programs that can spend years building their characters and audiences. Four awards at the first opportunity make for a brisk opening chapter, even by the standards of a genre that knows how to keep a story moving. The platform for the ceremony adds another wrinkle: daytime television's trophies were handed out on a service where the audience can arrive with a phone, a laptop or a living-room screen. The soap itself still has the longer job of keeping viewers interested after the excitement of awards night. A first-year victory cannot tell anyone how many future stories will land, but it does give the cast and creative team a substantial early acknowledgment from their peers. Beyond the Gates now has an excellent problem for a new show: finding room for four awards while continuing to produce enough drama to earn the next visit. The trophy shelf has reached its second act before the soap has had much time for a slow burn.
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